Institute of Astronomy Seminars take place each Wednesday in the Hoyle Building Lecture Theatre and are preceeded by a bread and cheese lunch in the Hoyle Foyer at 12:30. IoA Colloquia take place each Thursday during Full Term in the Hoyle Building Lecture Theatre and are preceded by tea at 15:30 and followed by a wine reception in the Hoyle Foyer. Joint Colloquia with the Cavendish Astrophysics group are on a Tuesday or Thursday.

Talks Archive

The Institute keeps an archive of previous talks at the IoA.

Additional Talks Information

Upcoming Institute of Astronomy Talks

Friday 30 September 2022

Uddipan Banik (Yale)

Pushing the frontiers of gravitational encounters and collisionless dynamics

Series: Galaxies Discussion Group
Time: 11:30-12:30
Venue: in person & via zoom  [details]

Tuesday 04 October 2022

David Weinberg (Ohio State University)

Decoding the Origin of the Elements

Series: Galaxies Discussion Group
Time: 12:00-13:00
Venue: Hoyle Lecture Theatre and online  [details]

Tim Cunningham, University of Warwick

White dwarfs as probes of convective overshoot and evolved exoplanetary systems

Series: Exoplanet Seminars
Time: 13:00-14:00
Venue: Ryle seminar room + ONLINE - Details to be sent by email  [details]

Friday 07 October 2022

Yuki Isobe (University of Tokyo)

Uncovering Extremely Metal-Poor Galaxies in the Era of JWST Studies

Series: Galaxies Discussion Group
Time: 11:30-12:30
Venue: in person & via zoom  [details]

Thursday 20 October 2022

Lorenzo Zanisi - UK Atomic Energy Authority

Hot & cool: tackling the Fusion grand challenge with AI and HPC

Series: Data Intensive Science Seminar Series
Time: 13:00-14:30
Venue: Kavli Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building  [details]

Friday 21 October 2022

Romain Meyer (Heidelberg)

Quasars TBC

Series: Galaxies Discussion Group
Time: 11:30-12:30
Venue: in person & via zoom  [details]

Thursday 03 November 2022

Challenger Mishra (University of Cambridge)

TBC

Series: Data Intensive Science Seminar Series
Time: 13:00-14:30
Venue: Kavli Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building  [details]

Friday 04 November 2022

Francesca Fragkoudi (Durham)

tbc

Series: Galaxies Discussion Group
Time: 11:30-12:30
Venue: in person & via zoom  [details]

Thursday 10 November 2022

Isobel Romero-Shaw (DAMTP)

Gravitational Wave Analysis (TBC)

Series: Data Intensive Science Seminar Series
Time: 13:00-14:30
Venue: Kavli Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building  [details]

Thursday 17 November 2022

Alya Bin Thabet - Montserrat Lab, Cambridge

Data Linking as a Tool of Scientific Investigation

Series: Data Intensive Science Seminar Series
Time: 13:00-14:30
Venue: Kavli Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building  [details]

Upcoming External Talks

Friday 07 October 2022

Daria Gangardt, University of Birmingham

The Taxonomy of Spin Precession in Binary Black Holes

Series: DAMTP Friday GR Seminar
Time: 13:00-14:00
Venue: Potter room/Zoom  [details]

Monday 10 October 2022

Stephanie Yardley, University of Reading

Title to be confirmed

Series: DAMTP Astro Mondays
Time: 14:00-15:00
Venue: In Person MR14  [details]

Friday 14 October 2022

Debatri Chattopadhyay, Cardiff University

Simulating black hole binary formation environments

Series: DAMTP Friday GR Seminar
Time: 13:00-14:00
Venue: Potter room/Zoom  [details]

Monday 17 October 2022

Prof. Andrew Hillier, University of Exeter

Title to be confirmed

Series: DAMTP Astro Mondays
Time: 14:00-15:00
Venue: In Person MR14  [details]

Friday 21 October 2022

Rachel Gray

Cosmology with GW signals

Series: DAMTP Friday GR Seminar
Time: 13:00-14:00
Venue: Potter room/Zoom  [details]

Friday 28 October 2022

Benjamin Berczi, University of Nottingham

Title to be confirmed

Series: DAMTP Friday GR Seminar
Time: 13:00-14:00
Venue: Potter room/Zoom  [details]

Friday 04 November 2022

Nigel Bishop, Rhodes University

The propagation of gravitational waves through matter

Series: DAMTP Friday GR Seminar
Time: 13:00-14:00
Venue: Potter room/Zoom  [details]

Monday 07 November 2022

Dr Enrico Ragusa - ENS de Lyon

Title to be confirmed

Series: DAMTP Astro Mondays
Time: 14:00-15:00
Venue: In Person MR14  [details]

Friday 11 November 2022

Freija Beirnaert

Title to be confirmed

Series: DAMTP Friday GR Seminar
Time: 13:00-14:00
Venue: Potter room/Zoom  [details]

Friday 18 November 2022

Federico Capone

Title to be confirmed

Series: DAMTP Friday GR Seminar
Time: 13:00-14:00
Venue: Potter room/Zoom  [details]